Editing Mode + The Return Of Rainbow + "The Honeymoon Killers"

Happy Late Night, my Darling,

Today I saw a bunch of your posts, all related to music, so perhaps that means there are a lot of potential projects in the works? I think, for the most part, that things have really gone well so far this year. What has it been, about 18 months since you graduated college and finished your semester at art school in Italy? It seems longer than 18 months, simply because so much has happened for you, workwise, since your graduation.

I trust that your latest video (from yesterday) is coming along well, and I am guessing that you may be in 24 hour editing mode. :)

I am excited because there are only four more days until the Monsters Of Rock festival in Germany, and that means the return of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow for their first show in almost 20 years. I shouldn't use the word "their" I suppose, because Sir Richard changes musicians with regularity over the years, and this new incarnation is "all new", with a new singer most importantly. But what's exciting is that Ritchie - at age 71! - will be playing hard rock again for the first time since 1997. It will be cool to see him pull it off, and I have no doubt that he & the band will. The Rainbow shows in the early 80s, when RB was in his late 30s, were some of the fastest, hardest rock shows ever. Man did they play fast, and with incredible energy, and Ritchie was always the leader and driving force, an amazing live musician. I will be looking for Youtube clips as soon as someone puts them up on Friday; can't wait to see how it turns out.  :)

Tonight's movie was once again from Criterion (via The Libe), another low budget but artistic feature in a vein similar to that of "Blast Of Silence", the mafia flick I wrote about the other night. This one was called "The Honeymoon Killers", a true story of a nurse and her flim-flam boyfriend who posed as brother and sister as he answered "lonely hearts" advertisments and briefly married women with money, before bilking them of it, and then killing some of them, with the help of his domineering "sister". The film, like "Blast Of Silence" was once again shot in New York by novice but talented filmmakers, and once again is in black and white. Both films have a Scorsese feel, but "Honeymoon Killers" has a documentary look, as if you are watching real life. In that way the violence is more realistic, and therefore more off-putting, but overall it is a very effective (though strong) film, and very well acted by the leads, the ever reliable Tony LoBianco (of many New York films) and a stage actress named Shirley Stoler who is downright scary in the lead female role.

Well, that was it for today. I did an Aliso Canyon walk, full length, which is becoming a Monday ritual.

See you in the morning, Sweet Baby! I Love You.  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo  :):)